-
Welcome to the WDWMAGIC.COM Forums!
Please take a look around, and feel free to sign up and join the community.
New Anna/Elsa standby procedure?
- Thread starter HRHPrincessAriel
- Start date
Kman101
Well-Known Member
Or how about a system where you pay less to get into the park, but have to pay for tickets to ride the rides. They could price the tickets so that the more popular rides are more expensive. This would be revolutionary!
I'd love for that to happen again. It would never fly but it's how it probably should be.
Kman101
Well-Known Member
I agree with that but what else can they do for the meet and greet, really? I don't see guests being all that outraged at the end of the day. I'm not seeing the big deal in this? Now if it becomes the go-to for attractions I'll agree with the "what was the point of FP+". But for this meet and grope? I think it's a decent solution.
cmoliver68
Active Member
It's real and here is proof.
Posted by mjhannaf over on the DIS
Now the big questions...what time did you arrive and how long did it take to get your return ticket?
drew81
Well-Known Member
Or more importantly will guests try to sell/purchase them from other guests? It's not like it didn't happen at Epcot.
Honestly turn the entire princess fairy tale hall into frozen for a while.....3 sets of the same character...2 purposes are served lines will be at most 1 hour stand by and 2 people hopefully will get sick of it sooner...
Also put them at some of the character meals honestly...that might take some people out of the meet and greet spots....no reason not to put them in rotation at the castle and Norway at the minimum
Also put them at some of the character meals honestly...that might take some people out of the meet and greet spots....no reason not to put them in rotation at the castle and Norway at the minimum
notnothin
Active Member
Initial report from this morning:
Let's put it this way. At roughly 10:30 this morning they were handing out for the 5-6pm hours
stevehousse
Well-Known Member
I don't even understand the point of this? I thought with the extra hours they were keeping the princesses for, this whole 5 hour line business had been diminished???
Or why didn't they just go FP+ only for the princesses? I remeber talk of that awhile ago where certain characters would be FP+ only? This is just stupid...
Or why didn't they just go FP+ only for the princesses? I remeber talk of that awhile ago where certain characters would be FP+ only? This is just stupid...
PhotoDave219
Well-Known Member
You just can't have your guests waiting in line all day for 30 seconds of meeting bliss with two sisters.
Completely agreed. Overspend by 100% and then go back to what you know.
Kuzcotopia
Well-Known Member
In the end, if you're in a line for five hours, you aren't spending money on snacks, scamburgers, and souvenirs.
This has to be the reason behind the change. At this point, guests have to know what they're getting into with a standby for A&E, so I can't imagine guest satisfaction is the prime concern.
You sure can, if that's how they choose to spend their time.
PhotoDave219
Well-Known Member
But how on earth will they spend money on souvenirs & food if they're stuck in line?!?!
PhotoDave219
Well-Known Member
You simply cannot do that.
You can't tell a day guest that shows up that they had to book a reservation six months ago to meet the most popular characters at Disney.
Nemo14
Well-Known Member
Exactly!
Ah, that's where you were going with that. I thought you were trying to say it wasn't fair or something
lentesta
Premium Member
Words fail me. They've created a paper-based Standby Fastpass line, and a faster FastpassPlus line. I joked about this in an April Fool's Day blog post.
MikeyK72
Well-Known Member
In my opinion, I don't like Disney taking away the standby option and here's why.
If I arrive at any attraction (not just a meet & greet) and see that there's a standby wait time of 5 hours, I used to have a choice to make. That choice was basically to wait or move on to something else. I would ask myself, "do I feel as if experiencing this attraction is worth the wait time?" Knowing that I could be experiencing 5 other 1 hour-wait attractions instead, I had a choice to make regarding how I spent the next 5 hours of my time. And if it worked out that the park would only be open for 5 more hours, then I'd be deciding if this was the way I wanted to spend the rest of the day.
But by taking the standby queue away, I feel that Disney is now taking that choice away from me. With this new approach, I may arrive at the attraction mid-day and find that there are no standby passes/times available at all. So basically, Disney is preventing me from experiencing that attraction at all that day even though in my example it's only mid-day and I may have chosen to wait standby for it.
I'm not a Disney basher by any means...actually quite the opposite because I'm a DVC member and an AP holder...so yes I drank the Koolaid in huge gulps...but I feel like this is a "take away" and not a "value add".
If I arrive at any attraction (not just a meet & greet) and see that there's a standby wait time of 5 hours, I used to have a choice to make. That choice was basically to wait or move on to something else. I would ask myself, "do I feel as if experiencing this attraction is worth the wait time?" Knowing that I could be experiencing 5 other 1 hour-wait attractions instead, I had a choice to make regarding how I spent the next 5 hours of my time. And if it worked out that the park would only be open for 5 more hours, then I'd be deciding if this was the way I wanted to spend the rest of the day.
But by taking the standby queue away, I feel that Disney is now taking that choice away from me. With this new approach, I may arrive at the attraction mid-day and find that there are no standby passes/times available at all. So basically, Disney is preventing me from experiencing that attraction at all that day even though in my example it's only mid-day and I may have chosen to wait standby for it.
I'm not a Disney basher by any means...actually quite the opposite because I'm a DVC member and an AP holder...so yes I drank the Koolaid in huge gulps...but I feel like this is a "take away" and not a "value add".